Central Florida linemen Justin McCray, left, and Jordan McCray pull the legendary sword from the stone at the Magic Kingdom park at the Walt Disney World Resort January 12, 2014 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 6’3″, 310-pound identical twins starred on the UCF football team that finished the 2013 season ranked 10th in national polls. (Kent Phillips/Disney Parks via Getty Images)

GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers and the Tennessee Titans attempted to sign both of the McCrays.

The identical twins, inseparable since birth, finally decided it would be best to go their separate ways.

Now, for the first time in their lives, Jordan and Justin McCray are apart. Jordan is in Green Bay as a free-agent guard and Justin is in Nashville as a free-agent guard.

Roommates and teammates at Central Florida after careers at Miami’s Southridge High School, the McCrays concluded being on the same National Football League depth chart wouldn’t be prudent.

“Green Bay and Tennessee wanted us both,” Jordan said. “But because we’re competing for a spot we’d rather just compete against people we don’t know, not each other.

“We knew at the beginning of the process that the only way we’d be going to the same place is if the same team drafted us.”

Last season, Jordan started at left guard and Justin at right guard for the Blake Bortles-quarterbacked Knights, who finished 12-1 and 10th in the final AP poll.

Get this. In 2011, older brother Cliff was the left guard while Jordan worked at right guard and Justin played some at right tackle. Their jersey numbers were 63 for Jordan, 64 for Justin and 65 for Cliff.

It was the first time three brothers were on the same major-college team since the Selmons (Lee Roy, Lucious and Dewey) played together at Oklahoma 40 years ago.

“My older brother was playing for Central Florida at the time we were being recruited,” said Jordan. “That really determined where we were going to go.”

The McCrays truly are duplicates. Consider the results March 19 at UCF pro day:

— Jordan measured 6 feet 2 7/8 inches. Justin was 6-3 1/8.

— Jordan weighed 322, 1 pound more than Justin.

— Jordan posted a 40-yard dash time of 5.54 seconds, a vertical jump of 27 1/2 inches, a broad jump of 8-4 and put up 33 reps on the 225-pound bench press.

Justin had a 5.52 40, a 25 1/2 vertical jump, an 8-3 broad jump and 32 reps on the bench.

“Genetics are such a crazy thing,” Cliff told a UCF publication in 2011. “Because we all have the same body type, the same body quickness and a lot of the same attributes on the field.”

Although the twins’ hand sizes measured within an eighth of an inch, Justin’s arms were an inch longer, 32 to 31.

“Side by side the difference is so minute,” said one AFC personnel man who went through Orlando last fall. “But one (Justin) has a little more length and you can see it in his play.

“As far as their style of play and their makeup, they’re the exact same guy.”

Why wouldn’t they be? Debra, their mother, told an interviewer in 2013 that the twins had never been apart for more than four or five hours.

“I guess not anymore,” Jordan said with a chuckle. “That’s my best friend. We do (fight) but it’s all out of competition. I don’t want him to be better than me at anything and he doesn’t want me to be better than him at anything.”

They even had the same major: interpersonal/organizational communication.

The Packers had Justin in for a visit. Jordan visited the Miami Dolphins and had a workout with a New England Patriots representative on campus.

But now the Packers have Jordan, who can only hope to have some of the success that UCF alum Josh Sitton has had the last six years in Green Bay.

“He actually sent me a text asking me if I needed anything when I got here just hit him up,” said Jordan. “My O-line coach (Brent Key) talks about him all the time. I think he’s the best guard in the NFL.”

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